On January 13, 2003, “Lieutenant General Michael Hayden, the NSA [National Security Agency] director, met with his agency’s top officials…for a highly classified ‘town meeting.’…[Hayden] formally issued what was called a ‘Statement of Director’s Intent’ for a war with Iraq.” – Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Pages 268-269 […]
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1/13/2003
On “January 13 [2003], [Secretary of State Colin] Powell and [President] Bush met in the Oval Office…The president said he had make up his mind on war [with Iraq]. The US should go to war…’Are you with me on this?’ the president asked him now. ‘I think I have to do this, I want you […]
1/13/2003
On January 13, 2003, “President Bush summoned Secretary of State Colin Powell for a 12-minute Oval Office meeting to say he had decided on war with Iraq. …The president very reluctantly confirmed to me [journalist Bob Woodward] that he had asked Powell directly for his support but added testily a rather obvious point. ‘I didn’t […]
1/13/2003
“…on January 13 [2003], [President] Bush told [Secretary of State Colin] Powell… ‘I really think I’m going to have to take this guy [Saddam Hussein] out…’ ” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 201 […]
1/13/2003
Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke with President Bush after a meeting in the Oval Office on January 13, 2003. “As Powell remembered the conversation, Bush said, ‘ *I really think I’m going to have to take this guy [Saddam] out.* And I said, ‘Okay, we’ll continue to see if we can find a diplomatic […]
1/11/2003
Vice President Dick “Cheney invited [Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar al Sultan] to his West Wing office on Saturday, January 11, 2003. [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld and JCS [Joint Chiefs of Staff] Chairman General Richard B. Myers were also there….One purpose of the meeting was to convince Bandar that US forces would have to be […]
1/11/2003
Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote: “On January 11, 2003, I approved the deployment of an additional thirty-five thousand troops, with aircraft and warships, to the Gulf region, sending still another signal [to Saddam] that the time for cooperation was dwindling.” – Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 443 […]
1/10/2003
“At 2:15 PM on January 10 [2003], [President] Bush and [Vice President Dick] Cheney met privately with three leading Iraqi dissidents [director of a foundation promoting human rights Rend Francke, a doctor from Tikrit Hatem Mukhlis, and author Kanan Makiya] in the Oval Office. The president was blunt….’I believe Saddam Hussein is a threat to […]
1/9/2003
“On January 9, 2003, [General Counsel of the U.S. Navy Alberto] Mora had a second meeting with [legal counsel to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld] Jim Haynes. …Haynes defended the tough new [interrogation] tactics. …Mora also warned Haynes that the legal opinions that the [Bush] administration was counting on to protect itself might not withstand […]
1/9/2003
Referring to Iraq, White House spokesman “Ari Fleischer announced again on January 9, 2003: ‘We know for a fact that there are weapons there.’ ” – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 139 […]